Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 28/08/2026#finished Thomas Mann, DEATH IN VENICE AND OTHER STORIES 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 24/08/2026#finished Ben Lerner’s LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION (reread) 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 13/07/2026“In this garden our task has been to witness the fleet and unmelodious ghost called Liberty, but tomorrow we must allow that ambition to gently recede - as a rhythm deferred - and leaning, pluck lust from the pistilate heart.” —Lisa Robertson 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 11/07/2026#finished WAVE OF BLOOD by Ariana Reines (Divided Publishing) 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 29/06/2026The “backlash” against “autofiction” will be led by people who never understood the “genre” as anything but a “buzzword”—by people who never understood why it arose, and what it meant in those cultural contexts, but who will nonetheless feel the “need” to “transcend” it. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 24/06/2026Just #finished China Miéville’s OCTOBER (Verso, 2017)—auspicious! 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 21/06/2026#Finished Jed Munson’s VISION SANS SERAPHIM (Beautiful Days Press, 2025) 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 16/05/2026Cool that many of the all-time greatest artworks are mostly encountered thru a fog of severe jetlag 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 12/05/2026#finished THE CODIFIED PROPHET (Inpatient) by Yasmina Hashemi 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 08/05/2026Three new poems up now in COMA. www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...communitymausoleum.orgThree Poems — Community Mausoleumthere would be a respectable inefficiency, renaming every iota of experience “windfall number x,” etc., a trophy wanting 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 06/05/2026My chapbook AION’S RIBBON is out now from Inpatient Press. Here‘s a little essay I wrote about it on my blog. You can get the book at inpatientpress.bigcartel.com.parker-m.infoAion’s Ribbon is HereMy newest chapbook is out now. I wrote this poem at a very painful and changeful moment, when many things that furnished me with a sense of self were falling apart and I felt guided toward an untested vision of my life. 010
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 13/04/2026Really nice interview series w/ downtown NYC poets c. 1966.wnyc.orgPoetry of the Avant-Garde | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, NewsMichael Silverton hosts a 1966-1967 series of interviews with avant-garde poets. Mike organized poetry readings for the New School for Social Research and a NoHo art gallery. He also produced poetry b... 010
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 12/03/2026#Finished Marios Chakkas’s THE COMMUNE (Inpatient Press, 2024), which is unrelentingly bleak and devilishly funny. Like this year’s Sirāt and The Secret Agent, it captures the doomed, absurd logic of fascist censure (except it’s nonfiction—sort of). 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 07/03/2026There are so few things I think should be illegal but the Dodgers / Yankees split ballcap is one of them. 140
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 07/03/2026Also #finished Michael Martin Shea’s I’M SORRY BUT NONE OF THIS IS MY FAULT (Essay Press). 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 07/03/2026AWP Amtrak reading. #finished Sentiment by Kai Ihns (blush lit / illicit zines). Hugely liked. 010
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 05/03/2026#Finished Bob Glück’s JACK THE MODERNIST (NYRB Classics reissue). The prose hefts the paratactic pleasures of contemporary poetry and LANGUAGE-adjacent compositional tactics in a tender, campy, porny, gossipy love letter that will make you cry yourself into existence. (If you don’t, just give up). 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 25/02/2026Tonight #finished Thomas Bernhard’s WOODCUTTERS and truly I can say that I enjoyed every word of it. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 11/02/2026Not sure what compelled me but just #finished A Confederacy of Dunces 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 05/02/2026Tonight finally sat down with, started and #finished Terrence Arjoon’s THE DISINHERITED. He really did it. Best book of 2025. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 04/02/2026#finished & loved Cedar Sigo’s SIREN OF ATLANTIS. “I want the most satanic podium for others to decipher, line upon line.” Was happy to revisit “A Scandal in Peril,” which I had the pleasure of publishing as Brooklyn Review poetry editor in ‘22. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 03/02/2026Just #finished and deeply enjoyed Larry Levis’s WINTER STARS, reissued this month by Pitt Poetry 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 02/02/2026There needs to be a clothing store for 34 year old septuagenarians 000
Reposted by Parker MenzimerTransportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 31/01/2026TODAY. FOLEY SQUARE. 2 P.M. 0295
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 31/01/2026Good moment to revisit this all-timerdismagazine.comHow to Hide from Machines - DIS MagazineThe perilous glamour of life under surveillance. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 29/01/2026A giant whose poetry would reward the attention of many lifetimes. Grateful to Mei-mei for the gift of her writing. 020
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 27/01/2026Finally #finished Jenny Erpenbeck’s VISITATION. Not sure what took me so long. I found it lovely & unnerving, sometimes a little heavy handed and the dolorous tone can be grating, but it takes a big swing. Nice example of archives mania in contemporary fiction. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 17/01/2026This AM finished Kenneth Koch’s KO: A Season on Earth. Weird one! A postmodern, rhyming, Americana epic. Not particularly good, but points for its total submission to a whimsy that occasionally charms. Demerits for its tonal inscrutability and unneeded luridness. 010
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 13/01/2026Tonight #finished Gay Heaven is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archways Editions 2024) by charles theonia 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 12/01/2026This weekend #finished Coteries and Gossip by David Trinidad and My First Visit to the University of Maine by Jennifer Moxley (The Lettered Streets Press Split Series vol. 4) and The Blackbird by Christian Schlegel (Beautiful Days Press) 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 18/12/2025#finished de Chirico’s MR. DUDRON trans. Stefania Heim. I laughed a lot and will never forget this description of overcooked pasta: “The insipidness of that boiled white mass surpassed all that can be imagined.” 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 12/12/2025Out of the frying pan (former neighbor had roaches) into the fire (new neighbor has modular synthesizers). 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 09/12/2025Just #finished MOTHERHOOD by Sheila Heti. I read it slowly starting in October, with a few breaks to finish other things (I also misplaced it briefly). Will this book about love’s many registers stay with me forever? Yes. 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 09/10/2025Just #finished & enjoyed Lara Mimosa Montes’s The Time of the Novel (Wendy’s Subway 2025). What if Alice was a bookworld precariat and Wonderland was given a Kmart realist remodel. “It was like the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog and never stopped.” 000
Parker Menzimer @parker-m.info · 16/09/2025Just #finished Mark McMorris’s Entrepôt. Seductive, erudite, often sinister sequences of long-lined, mid-length pomes. Held together by 17 epistles. First-order postcolonial gothic lit—fantasy-tinged. From Coffee House Press, 2010. 010
